A Game of Glocks (continued …)

The intrigue of the Glock family rival even the most outrageous Hollywood soap operas. The latest news out of Austria is that Helga Glock has lost a case against her former husband to get back the 15% of the Glock Ges.m.b.H. (the gun making company we all know and love) that she gifted to the Private Glock Foundation back in 1998. The Private Glock Foundation is the trust (trust may not be the correct Austrian-legal term) that owns 98% of the before mentioned gun manufacturer. Helga owns the remaining 2%. She argued that the gift should be returned due to criminal misconduct and gross ingratitude.

Helga and the couples children were cut out of the company and Foundation management after he had a stroke, divorced his wife, married his much younger nurse and made her a director of the Foundation.

There are a number of court cases still pending in Austria and the USA between Gadson and his family.

Anyway as far s the name. I saw the alternate spelling used in a good number of articles. I emailed a couple of guys who gave me the explanation I typed. I don’t know for sure if this is a foulup from several sources that got some traction on the Internet or what.
I always Used Gaston until this alternate came up.

Beeing an Austrian since my birth, and a gun owner (also Glock) for quite some time, I am a hundert percent sure its Gaston (french spoken).
BTW I want to add, this “philanthropist” spent million euros for charity especially for animals (especially vienna zoo), but not a single cent for the better of gun rights in austria….

MJ Triola

Just finished Paul Barrett’s “Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun” written before Glock Inc really began to diversify their calibers. He misses a few small things here and there but it’s like the gun industry version of “Being There”. A great read for anybody interested in the business of firearms.

Robert177

IDC about their personal lives. They make great guns, at a very low price. If all companies were like this, the world would be a great place.